Posted on 12/21/2007 6:11:09 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
Ted Jackson / Times-PicayuneSharon Jasper sits in the living room of her voucher-backed private residence. "I might be poor but I don't like to live poor. I thank God for a place to live but it's pitiful what people give you."
Sharon Jasper, a former St. Bernard complex resident presented by activists Tuesday as a victim of changing public housing policies, took a moment before the start of the City Hall protest to complain about her subsidized private apartment, which she called a "slum." A HANO voucher covers her rent on a unit in an old Faubourg St. John home, but she said she faced several hundred dollars in deposit charges and now faces a steep utility bill.
"I'm tired of the slum landlords, and I'm tired of the slum houses," she said.
Pointing across the street to an encampment of homeless people at Duncan Plaza, Jasper said, "I might do better out here with one of these tents."
Jasper, who later allowed a photographer to tour the subsidized apartment, also complained about missing window screens, a slow leak in a sink, a warped back door and a few other details of a residence that otherwise appeared to have been recently renovated.
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I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you:
Even new houses have "issues".
So don't buy a new house without a warranty.
That's classic.
I can so, so, so relate to that. It starts as not so subtle hints, morphing into snide comments, then finally becomes full-on 108mm bitch-mode until I get off my butt and fix it in just to get some peace and quiet.
I'm usually rewarded with something nice - like homemade chocolate chip cookies.
Merry Christmas, L.
Kawana Jasper, left, and her mother Sharon Jasper talk to a man before the New Orleans City Council holds a meeting about tearing down public housing buildings in New Orleans, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Sick, Lame and Lazy *ping*
The article said she was missing a screen, but I think I see it there in the picture — it’s hard to miss.
Ignoring that obvious thing, plus the christmas light deer in her living room, I would note that replacing a screen can be done for under 10 bucks, and the homeowner can do it herself, or get one of her buddies who helped her carry the big-screen TV into her living room to do it.
She could exchange their help for a night watching the superbowl on her big-screen TV. I’m betting she has cable.
She said she’d be better off with the homeless people across the street. I’m wondering if they have power for her big-screen TV over there. Because the TV is big enough for all of them to watch from their OWN “living room” boxes.
She had to trade a whole stack of these for that HDTV you know!
That picture shows a person with a standard of living better than at least 90% of the worlds population. That room is as good or better than many in Western Europe, better than many in Eastern Europe. Someone in a third world country would think they had died and gone to heaven if they lived there.
There you go! A win/win in the relationship. My poor wife is afflicted with a homebody whose main hobby is reading (try that with a three year old in the house).
“...I thank God for a place to live but it’s pitiful what people give you.”
“...it’s pitiful what people give you.” ?
Amazing.
I’ve worked in hundreds of HUD and sec 8 apartments. Almost all these folks have multiple TVs, CD and DVD players, stacks of CD/DVDs.
"YOU just better shut up and keep those payments rolling in, you nasty cracker!"
Also, if you are on fire, the Ninjas can't get you.
I’m sure that huge tv is connected to Cox cable and I bet she gets chanel 999, WTFLN (The Fat Lazy Network)
Where did you find that pic?
Whoa! Be sure to scroll down and read the comments following the article. Freepers aren’t the only ones enraged by this.
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